"A newspaperman wrote asking me to send'im my philosophy in a nutshell. Get out of whatever cage you happen to be in." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972)

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

"Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

"No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, however much opposed to my own. The savages who roast and eat the bodies of their dead do not scandalize me so much as those who persecute the living." (Michel de Montaigne)

"There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them." (Mario Puzo)